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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 10:41:29 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Trained to See and Outsider Art:
Nancy said, "In my art training, I’m learning to see shapes, colors, relationships and placements of one object to others I hadn’t noticed before. Then select a small portion of what I see and use tricks to transfer this idea to a flat surface. As..." more
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 4:09:27 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Done:
Nancy said, "In Nebraska thunder was so loud the house moved; it shook and so did I growing up. When my children were small Portland experienced a thunder storm too and instead of leaving them alone, trembling in their beds we reconstructed our couch, except..." more
Monday, December 31, 2012 4:35:25 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled College Teacher Afraid Of Wood Houses:
Nancy said, "I invited my college teacher, who was visiting from Europe, to dinner but he was afraid to enter my house because it was wood. He lived in a home, hundreds and hundreds of years old made of stone and all his neighbors knew America was due to fall..." more
Sunday, December 30, 2012 11:59:25 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Resoutionsns In Reverse:
Nancy said, "“For my New Year’s Resolution I’m reviving an old habit!” john told me in the truck “Oh? I asked “Which One?” He couldn’t decide. “Because there are so many?” I said. Kathy, in my..." more
Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:55:24 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Tesla Slapped My In the Face:
Nancy said, "Tesla, hearing something downstairs, bounded down them saw John, and ran back up where I was sleeping, and slapped me the face. Usually Tesla ,my cat, and I are awake hours before John and evidently he didn’t want me to miss anything even..." more
Friday, December 28, 2012 2:37:22 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled A Dust Bunny Named Bearos:
Nancy said, "Words are nice but not mush to look so Kathy cuts out bright beautiful pictures and glues them, over lapping each other, in her favorite book. It’s a great improvement plus now its twice as thick. Her mother does not agree and Kathy claims..." more
Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:13:21 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled The Strength of Folklore:
Nancy said, "Folklore has always helped create norms in all cultures. Today’s folklore consist of books and various technological entertainments. My dream is to write books about families so delicious they remind us much we already long to be together."
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:51:20 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Adventures Should Always Be At the Family Level:
Nancy said, "I was raised with, at that moment in history, the world’s most perfect person but she was always very busy doing or learning a skill or subject. My mother took classes or read books on how to paint horses on my skirts, make strangely shaped..." more
Monday, December 24, 2012 11:17:17 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled He Locked My Cookies In His Safe!:
Nancy said, "John removed his favorites, slipped them into his pocket, and all the while I was talking to Bart and Annette, who brought the Christmas delights. John had started by sampling them, while I talked, left the room without a word to bring back a bag,..." more
Sunday, December 23, 2012 1:17:15 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Kids and Their Very Own Parents Saving the World Together:
Nancy said, "How we would soar if hour after hour our kids viewed stories of themselves and parents doing dishes and saving the world together! We live in a great and wonderful time but most kids don’t work along side their parents as they used to on a..." more
Saturday, December 22, 2012 5:15:13 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled I Left my Tree But My Hair Didn’t:
Nancy said, "When I was eight, or there abouts, I folded my arms and leaned against a pine tree. In my mind I was in a smarty pants pose. I’d seen James Dean and others doing this and distained them for it, but I’d looked too long and often and it..." more
Friday, December 21, 2012 11:49:11 AM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Perpahs At 52, I Need Seep Overs Again:
Nancy said, "There are so many ways of doing the right thing right they look wrong. While Amy and I were working on my books her daughter Kirani called to get permission to go to a fiend’s house for a seep over and we remembered when we were young enough..." more
Thursday, December 20, 2012 1:06:29 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Nature Out of Control!:
Nancy said, "Aren’t people wonderful? It never looked to me like the scales (those bugs infesting the roots,trunks,stems and leaves until they killed one plant after another in my plant room) said to themselves, “OK guys we’ll eat half this..." more
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:58:27 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled A Spider, the Artist’s Muse?:
Nancy said, "I’m painting again. It’s the first thing I do in the morning before feeding my animals. This morning I stood with brush in hand so long the cats started complaining, then the bird, then my stomach, I heard from everyone but the fish. ..." more
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:52:25 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Easy Solutions Or Adding To Primary Ones?:
Nancy said, "My Dad and I argued about colors. I knew there were colors out there somewhere I hadn’t seen yet but he, with a PHD in electrical engineering, thought he knew better. I’d been retaught color concepts for years but they never stuck so I..." more
Monday, December 17, 2012 3:24:24 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Cosmology and Cookies:
Nancy said, "These Christmas cookies are not making me fat and connectively I am not getting lazier by the day! I’m balancing Trader Joe’s Lacey’s Cookies, Dark Chocolate Almond (which I HIGHLY recommend) on a spoon to keep my quilting hands..." more
Sunday, December 16, 2012 5:52:22 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Chickens: Might House Breaking Be Possible?:
Nancy said, "A woman found her chicken almost dead and revived her hen mouth to beak then brought the bird in the house to recover from the cold. The chicken enjoyed watching nature programs on TV from a baby’s bed rolled into the living room. I wondering..." more
Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:06:38 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled What Gift Would You Take to a Chicken’s Birthday Party?:
Nancy said, "If Jillian celebrates a chicken’s birthday with a human-type party what might she do for her brother and sister’s special day? Perhaps a mud float or a rolling down a long hill in 55 gallon drums, or each of them driving a tractors. See..." more
Friday, December 14, 2012 4:56:36 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Chickens in Birthday Suits:
Nancy said, "Edward sold his soul for Turkish Delight in Lyon Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Finally, after years of waiting, my children and I found Turkish Delight in a candy store at the beach and we found it wonderful, but I wonder what Chicken..." more
Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:36:35 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled A Chicken’s Birthday Party:
Nancy said, "My friend Jillian told me about having birthday parties for her chickens! She was quite serious and as I asked questions I found out guests were invited , and CAME, both human and chicken. I could hardly believe what I heard but they sang the..." more
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:36:33 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled Beef, Sheep, and Bugs Inside Joan’s Apartment?:
Nancy said, "“Are you home? Joan wants me to drop off sheep.” Her husband’s thinking, “Joan publicly announces to her friends, if they visit they are NEVER to use her bathroom hand towels and she wants sheep!” “How..." more
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:33:10 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled The Non-Dog:
Nancy said, "I previously talked about gift puppies, which reminds me of the best gift I ever gave John! For two weeks before Christmas I’d pretended not to hear his emphatic “Nos” as I repeatedly talked about how wonderful dogs are, what a..." more
Monday, December 10, 2012 4:19:09 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled He Drove A Bathroom Sized Room Down The Road:
Nancy said, "He drove a bathroom sized room down the road! I never wanted to drive as a teen and never wanted a bicycle as a child. In fact I wrote a funny book about my rough summer, at six, when I had to choose between disappointing my parents (by being a non-..." more
Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:33:08 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled 19 Puppies and a Wheelchair In One Room!:
Nancy said, "My friend Margaret, is now in her later years, and is so excited about giving each child , grandchild and great grandchild gifts this year she can hardly stay seated in her wheel chair! She mentioned to me her children are frustrated about not..." more
Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:00:02 PM
Nancy Mauerman wrote a blog post titled SOFT GEMS: the Answer to a Soggy Economy!:
Nancy said, "Children are greatly inspired in how they see life and what they say and do with this inspiration, but as they get older they learn to label, classify, and store information in non moveable places in their brains. This is necessary and good but..." more